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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3ɛD, 1910.
LADY ETHEL'S EXPERIMENT.
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BY
ARTHUR H. HENDERSON,
That is the most-remarkable-way-to-apolo- gise which I have ever heard," said Lady Ethel Burward with a judicial tilt of her small head to one side. It was an undeniably pretty bead crowned by a mass of soft fair hair soap-
from a very becoming little bat. The disparaged apologist granted, and the girl watched him from beneath lase down-drooped
anhood disposes. Flis parting words wars enigmatic:
An' if he's viclent *
"I'll blow the whistle hard." She parsed up! bor lips in anticipation of her effort.
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Now what exactly would have happened in sequence to this avowal will never be known. It was here that the unexpected occurred in the experiment. The willest plans of maiden scheming may be scattered-by the sea.
shout of
of alarm rang out hoarsely on deck. The sharp ting of tho engine.room telegraph revertented from the bridge. The yacht struck some object gratingly, and quivored from stem to stern with the blow.
"You think there is no other way, my Lady "A startled
I can't wait any longer. It is so bad-for "And you are certain as he will take care of you?" contested the captain hotly.
"I know he loves me," Ethel said softly to
ask.
the empty naboeding room. Bat be is too poor and proud to a
The captain
There was one second of ominous silence Thon this crockery in the adjacent pantry carried away with an appalling smadt. Ethel
PARON. An absurd craving stormed at her to the yacht,panied his mistress back gave a little frightened squeal and clutobed
You are my guardian, and you are just horri. Then you proposo to atone by going
Dway! Dick Eversley gazed doggedly unt of the window. His eyes were very tired; there was despair in them. 11e felt that if he allowed himself to look at the small sleader fire with her bewitching fun and feminine beanty ho should lose control of his ideas. They were woofully inadequate to the situation already.
Burely I um rich auough to marry whom I please!" declared the lady with a breathless fork. Her hoarer sad up suddenly as if someone "I cannot imagine why you do not do it," he said coldly.
On his return he remarked to the mate Brat that there was a smatterin' o'
Yoruld
It
by
desperately uf Dick's
x's arra.
His steady eyes blazed into force excitement, Vory gently he loosened her small lagers and put her from him, Then he fung all his weight in one mighty heave against the door. Bill it
held.
The girl recovered herself directly. With u strong self-reliant jump she scrambled on to the lurching table. Unhoodful of the soury of fest coming aft to the reseus she raised the whistle in her clenched hand and blew it shrilly.
Next moment the door was finng wide by a neared steward, and Dick Eversley simply lifted the girl as she stood, nud carried her un desk
with
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Here everyone seemed to be dugaged in shout- ing on his own reconat.
heart that her companion would move aside the trouble in the wind," and secondly that despite tirosome table with the tea things, and come to
ery considerable tonnage displacement sit close-quite close to ber instead. Such a
"you n' knocked me fat with anythin”, doeire was abnormal,
But smoke-like." the
ons boto kened stability still
energy of his prepare.
Beforg Joaving the hotel Lady Barward sum- moned a messen; ar boy. She gave him a noto written ouriously enough in the morning and imparted nanocessarily oft-repeated injune
ery. Then she raven litto fione as to its
dolivery. hugh of rapturous relief, and the dusk of the September twilight closed thickly over Dover Bay.
the time Eversley caus was dark to puzzle over his letter.
It was dated from the Lord Warden; it was short. It explained that the writer had left a The darkness was profound. In the fog the priceless parcel behind her an the yauben salva-Irene had crashed into a large sanck which fable: that she-on shore was dying with was drifting helplessly on the windless tide. It for its safely. That the "True" was was just possible to distinguish her aliadowy hail can." she murmured. She shot a swift Miling immediately to pay off, and, wont Dick through the gloom. glance at this sturdy form and tanned face. be so very kind as to go on board and fetch it:
for her at once.
The note was sigued "Yours- There were lines about the rosolate month and the the brown hair above the templea was tinged
Dick would-forthwith. The ancient boat. with groy. He had the air of a man w ́o know well the world and its ways, alike in pleasure and, however, was diloult to hurry and the in toil. Someone haul once described Eversley yacht was some way off shore. Sho was op as a well-brod man who always smelt of the parently about to get onder weigh, as the smoke was rising from her funnel and the dis right kind of tobacco. But he was thirty-eight; and he felt it all when he realised what a class lant rattle of the capstan hearing on the the future held for him with Ethel's comrade- mooring chain was borno across the water.
Tis a wonder she'll be puttin' to son too. The waves swirled seething over her; ship withdrawn.
right," opined the boatman rowing with a few bubbles flecked the foam; some old wreck maddening leisureliness. Twill be rare an age floated in the wash of the sea. thick by m-bye."
mid
atruok him.
There is Lord Tremsil," he suggested to her presently. Or Jack Norris, or
Oh, do stop!" she sighed helplessly. Both mlapsed into meditation.
Thy two were sit ing in a confortable corner of the lounge of the Lord Warden Hotel at Dover. In the harbour among the craft at
contorn
He pointed to a blanket of white clammy fog drawing surely carer. His conclusion was obrious.
A succession of erisp instructions from the yacht's captain stilled the hubbab. A daro burst into brightness and illuminated the black water around.
The other craft
was sinking, her "quarter stove in by the yacht's steel prow. She rolled inert and lifeless, her slippery desk casting over slowly to starboard. Then her bow reared stifly upwards until it was almost clear of the
with a
a weird choking gurgh she went
water
anchor lay, the "Irene, Lady Ethel's smartmepoose. The boat, lumbered alongside and and drowing into aither!" said the hopeless
little steam Facht. Her cruise had just ended for the season, the yachting party had separated, and the last two members of it were having a desi te ashore. An autumn fog was stealing up the Channel, and the dull wavus splashed sullenly on the pebbles of the beach.
It is so hard to be unattractive." Ethel sadly, stretching her glove across again
companion way
One of the
the smack's crew had sprung on the yacht at the moment of impact. Another had grasped at a doftly flung rope and was hauled up the side as if there was nothing in gravita. tion. But a third despairing face bobbed white
the black of the night. E can't swing voice of one with-
one of This ma
mates. Eversley cant loose a lifebolt with coul promptress He put his arm rery Brály found Ethel, and then he kissed her solemnly fall on her trembling month,
A prolonged hail, however, failed to produce Eversley-aped quickly up the accommodation ladder and down the after out meeting a soul. But directly bis back was tarned a mulled are emerged st
Istanttbity from the char: room, paid off the shore boatman with astounding liberality and then shoved his craft violently away from the yacht into the darkness, for the steward No one came. No parcel was visible anywhere in the saloon. He tried the door of Lady Ethel's littlo stateroom; it was locked.
he turned into another sids cabin, At that
Hare courage. dear," he comforted and
her kuce and matching its surface against the shoreley switched on the eshin electric and usat-piement he had plunged overboard to the
begau white serge yachting frock she wore.
Well, that can never be said of you," Ev. arsley assured her.
It seoms I am to-to just one man," sho whispered very low,
Who is ho demanded her guardian fiercely,
As if I should tell yon!" the girl cried in scorn at his masculine deaseness. I believe if I diel,
you would go and bally him into marry- ing mo whether he liked it or no."
So I would," said Everslay with savage amplasie. Ho looked completely as if he meant it, and the girl gave a distressful little Batile.
|
Irecise moment someone extinguished side rail with numbed hands and heaving
The
the light, and a man's voice spoke londly:
Well, there ain't no call for to come in 'ere gain, or leading deckwards slammed pre.
I'll fix up for the night." cipitately, and the key turned. Eversley rushed out frantically, and barked his shin against a chair. He said acraething from which in a cooler moment he would have refrained,
He tore at the door handle; it was fast. He on the panele; they were extremely hard banged on and substantial. He kicked and he shoved; but, except for inflicting braises on himself, he accomplished nothing.
And how am I to be sure whether I do want to marry a man till I have been engaged to him frst she fenced with forlorn inconsequence.
Thie
The crew of course berthed forward, and, in was baffling to the adviser. Listen!" Ethel ohooked the tale off on her the absence of passengers the after part of tiny angers. "Naimber One har fite of awful the vessel would out, but it was also over silliness and makes me laugh. Nambar Two is enough predicament, hat bald and his clothes don't fit him. Number sively annoying. He swore
and
and shouted ol
resone. Both were lost to sight in the smother of the vaporous fog.
Would the eager yachtsmen never get their boat lifted from the checks, and swung bo- tween the darila! The girl clung to the
breact. She had brought her lover to this to lose him. The splash of the lifeboat into the moa pulling away, reached her ears it: the water, the shouts of encouragement from deed; but hides terror of loneliness and fear deadened her brain. The yacht might sink as well for aught she cared. So long as Diok and she were not divided what did it matter what vise befell?
The raskt, however, did not sink, though her overhune stem was damaged above the water. was very smooth. line. Mercifully the san Another fare was burnt, and keen eyes strove unceasingly to pierce the blinding mist
Few people realise how difficult it is to light. In the darkuoss nothing was to be keop
an eye on a man aferboarI ran in day-
seen; but faint
| Threo can't rido, botoj yachting, and has to sit ately; he raged and laughed by turns. I tho pall. Tell carried distantly through
at a dance because he is so fat
dreadfully
perspires
A perfect description-to the feminine mind," said Dick soberly. "And Lord Tro moil
1
Those are his flowers "she nodded towards the table. 8ball I wear them ?"
It depends whether they suit the dress," Everely told her.
the commation he made listenor
any within a considerable radius would have readily concluded that a very active prisoner was trying to get out. There must be some body on deck. What deaf fools those fellows were! Had he been abis to be possessed of exact knowledge, and been able to sea throngs the planking, he would have discovered that an swed form was crouching near at hand.
"It's im!" said the skipper briefly in his huskiest voice. "Mister Eversler right enough. Lord, what a noise he's makin'!'
Lori Tremoil," she resumed after a minute'a consideration, during which she showed no inclination for immediate floral adornment,
would not be so bad if it were not for his The following partorano from within family, I think he likes me, though he has lent undoubted frath to the comment. Theu never told me so-exactly. But the Dowager is perplexity and quiet-supervened.
vision of win in silks and makes me shudiler..
What's he after now?" queried the outsider Fancy her as a mother-in-Law! And h's in low quriosity. "An' why don't she come soliloquiser's face worked into su outp anxious grimace and he scratched his head.
As a matter of feet Eversley had climbed cu to the saloon table and was wrestling angrily.
Bister-
Well P
Her style is op," declared the critic im- pressively
"You don't marry a fellow's relations," he opined on reflection.
was a brilliant swimmer: he had Lifobelt, Would that boat never relara
The lines of lighted portholes, and the flicker of the smoking flares throw long shadows of spectral radiance across the water. The yacht was whistling incessantly to indicato her posi tion. To Ethel there caute se never before the
need of
the overwhelming
every woman's life; passionato nood for the cue man-one alone--- who loved her, and whom she loved. He was in perind it was her doing that he was there:
With a queer little cry she ran aft. The boat was emerging from the obscurity astern, urged on- ward with all the vigour of stalwart straining men, It adled alongside the yacht. Flashing lanterns lit up the dark figures on the thwarts; wet forms were hunded skilfully on
on board, Both Eversley and the fisherman were saved.
With redoubled caution the "Irene" proceed.
ed under easy steam back to Dover-Acrimonious
controversy broke out by the chart room.
Ya yacht skipper's give me a main inside "ine," announced the smacke master, after he
が ho was
conscions of vibration; the pulse of the propeller with the skylight fastowings. Buddenly Oh, yet, you do." Plaintive disapproval throbbed into energy. The Irone" was steam contorted her dainty features. There was an-ing sonward and the light on the Admiralty
Pior blinked blefully astorn other pause.
The yacht's blared out
foghorn Haven't we always been good pals since we Eversley wrenched open the small glass panel
into the cl
the gloom. were small?" "Ratlier!"
tlier His eyes lit with reminiscence, and reared. He was red in the face with his "What
a quer little mite you were, dear, I axertions. It is not a dignified position stand- wish we were children again."
ing ou &
ou a saloon table and craning your neck *And-and when father died, and left me all through a skylight combing. the money, and made you my goardian, why— why did you change so! You have never been the asme sincs!" he cried.
Novor mlad me," said Eversley grily, "I'm poor, and I'm getting old. I have had illosions, but they are better destroyed." Not if they oun ba na well kept"
Ha had tarned the electric on again. A slight noise caused him to look down sharply The door of Lady Ethol's stooping cabin opered Paused on the threshold was herself. One hand held something tightly.
Eversley gazed at her paralysed. The diaple
as
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another voice soothingly. The argu- dships andsided. mont
"Now, Ethel, confess the meaning of all these Ho kul doings," said Eversley a little later.
in her oval cheek was fushel silaringly. She donned the skipper's Sunday suit, which gavo BENEDICTINE, D.O.M. ($49.50 for 1 dos. Quarts, Something in his last words caused the girl presented the most attractive of pictures. Hor him a shrunken sppearance waistwards.
"You-bere!" be gasped in a strangled reis.girl looked up at him sideways out of hot suin-
to shake herself with a wistful sort of im- outward calm was superb. patience. A look of fixed resolve dawned in her
face, a flash of daring amusement swept across
lagom
I have been listening to every word you've behind
it. Her plan was certainly to put it with said: I couldn't help it. It was abocking.
mildness-an
Peronsperiment. And experiments
are dangerous
She
voice
ht
an
to on her gloves abruptly. Her had an odd ring in it.
"Now Dink he good-1 for once! There is the
As a man who encounters an unfamiliar objent | of alarming design, Disk stared dazodly at his ward. At the same time she inspected the table öloth with writivni uyus,
Your maddy boots are making a dreadful
better come down? you
Are we? Oh, Dick!" A stranger would have believed her genuinely surprised.
"But what are son doing here at all" demanded the yacht'e owner with childish in- ucconce
I've come to fetch your parcal." "What parcel "
At this Evorsely descended slowly from his porch Again the fog siren interfered, hooting
Yet thore was a ́Berous, content
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MPERIAL WHISKY.
"A woman never confessan," said the re presentative of that sex oracularly.
Eversley raminated
It was an experiment," Lady Ethel remark-
fully. 14 heen come off galayal This explanation was mystifying. The soft colour
was surging matinoudý ngân over her choka,
Ethel" he stopped towards hor, but she avoided him with sudden adroitness.
"Don't you think me at all pretty?" she inquired plaintively
was something almost rough in his downright answer. She did not seem to mind.
And I am hopelessly compromised." She reverted to bar former complaint with a wail.
"Net if" begun Dick Eversley: and parse. *Lord Tremoil Ethel read he companion's thoughts unerringly" will have to marry that awful girl with the red hair now. He will be much nicer after being repulsed a sufleisut number of times. Dick"
skipper coming across the road. I want to mess there. Hadn't give him instructions about housing the yacht But we're locked in," cried the astounded at Southampton for the winter. She is learing victim from on high. here to-night, Goodbye for a while."
14 And when shall the individual who had you gain?" demanded recently announced that 6 was going away for ever.
Ob, in London, sometime," she explained charmingly
"You can't call, you know. But I shall be frightfully busy with the shops and dressmakers. I must have a new frock. Going home after the
always an excuse summer is for a now frock that is what makes it so unmelodiously. delightful, I love new
Just think if anyone should find us aboard At this
this juncture the master mariner of the here alone!"
!” cried Ethel electing to ignore refer "Trena"
11-07 the scene. He was
ences to parcel. You must go ashore at once." bluff and bat otherwise neglooted by
But
the yacht is at sea. She's on her way nature. He also worshipped from afar.
to Southampton!" Dick bristled with son Eversley departed, despondent. Once more sternation. the corner
of the
hotel lounge witnessed another hotel
Possibly that is so," conceded Ethel with he pleader cue to care for me, little
"ho with a smider hop argument persuasive and prolonged. After the unexpected meeknesss. She searched the back Her heart gave a great jump; the experiment
Fascinated Amazement
had been dispelled of her hair elaborately for errant pains.
was ended. All at once he understo ol. from the skipper's bewildered brain, he edged hin
out!" Eversloy assured her
you really want to marry me she asked thumbs into the ariaholes of his waistcoat, and with tremendous earnestness,
with tremor in her voice which was
ch was very sweet It is positively rule of yon," protested the then she added as she saw his face: decided that he had nothing in his vocabulary
hima. Will you take the risk-semne day pu adequate to the case. His eyes wazed large lady reprovingly, "to be in such a hurry to
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the
first
gut
&ONICLE and bulging: he took a long time to socto escape-from me. Yon won't brought up
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Finally he fared his hat on bis head as it to make sure that it was still there, and acceptad his orders with the appearance of mystified martyrdom which every plain seaman must wear when manhood proposes and imperions maid.
Feminine inconsistency dould not be more exasperating.
,"
"It is all so-so compromising for me," murmured Lady Ethel, Why, Dick
girl
Yes?
"What are we to do?" she insisted. "Could
Kiss me stupid quick! How unap preciative.men are!" she said sedately.
One of Eversley's first gifla to his fancte was a tiny golden whistle. She wears it on his bracelet round her wrist. She tells you that she won it-by experiment."
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